On the afternoon of November 30, 2023, Antawan Derell Strickland, 39, was found in the driveway of a residence on Success Court in Statesboro, Georgia, with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency services took him to East Georgia Regional Medical Center in critical condition; he later died of his injuries. The Statesboro Police Department opened a homicide investigation, processed the scene, and treated the shooting as a witnessed event while appealing for tips.

Investigators quickly identified a suspect and, on the following day, sought arrest warrants for 19-year-old Anthony Jermail Johnson of Statesboro on charges of Murder and Aggravated Assault. Johnson remained at large for months despite efforts by local law enforcement and the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force.

On February 12, 2024, Johnson was killed during a separate shooting at the Cambridge at the Pines apartment complex after an incident described by police as a drug transaction that turned violent. After his death, authorities informed Strickland’s family the murder investigation was cleared due to the death of the offender. If anyone has information about Strickland or the November 30 shooting, please come forward.